No, officer — these are just melatonin-laced brownies

Hash brownies might not be legal in most parts of the country, but so far there’s no hard-and-fast rule against melatonin-laced baked goods.

Enter “relaxation desserts,” available at stores like 7-Eleven and Walgreens. Sporting names like Lazy Cakes, Lulla Pies and Kush Cakes, the desserts are a controversial way to get a sleepy, mellow feeling off a convenience store shelf.

For now, anyway. Now that melatonin desserts are on the rise, health officials are getting worried. And lawmakers in some states are drafting legislation to ban melatonin-infused food products.

Melatonin, a popular sleep aid that made a big splash in the1990s, is usually sold in pill form. But now that it’s being treated as a food additive, it’s ruffling some feathers — despite the manufacturers’ attempts to brand it as a dietary supplement.

“It sounds to me like they are trying to claim that the entire brownie is like a tablet, which is, of course, preposterous,” one doctor told the New York Times.

“If you take it while you’re driving a car, you will find yourself in a ditch,” said another.

But if you listen to the people buying products like Lazy Cakes, you don’t hear that side of the story.

“My health teacher told me to not eat lazy cakes. I kindly but firmly told her to (expletive omitted) off,” one user wrote on the Lazy Cakes Facebook page.